Facilitation Market
Facilitation Market is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Materials Instructions Purpose: To engage the whole group in a discussion about facilitation skills, to share a story about how those skills might be demonstrated and share ideas and best practices.
- Set-up: Download the Workshops & Wizards deck.
- For this exercise, you'll be using all of the cards and will need around 2x the number of participants you have.
- Agenda PlannerDrag & drop blocks to create a full agenda in minutes.
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Prompts to use +
Materials Instructions Purpose: To engage the whole group in a discussion about facilitation skills, to share a story about how those skills might be demonstrated and share ideas and best practices.
Set-up: Download the Workshops & Wizards deck.
For this exercise, you'll be using all of the cards and will need around 2x the number of participants you have.
Agenda PlannerDrag & drop blocks to create a full agenda in minutes.
CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.
Run this with your AI assistant +
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Facilitation Market. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Materials Instructions Purpose: To engage the whole group in a discussion about facilitation skills, to share a story about how those skills might be demonstrated and share ideas and best practices.; Set-up: Download the Workshops & Wizards deck.; For this exercise, you'll be using all of the cards and will need around 2x the number of participants you have.; Agenda PlannerDrag & drop blocks to create a full agenda in minutes.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The current corpus has one observed source organization: SessionLab. (1 source observed, including SessionLab.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.